Levels Pieces Technique Reading Musicianship Glossary
Invention No. 3 in D major, BWV 774
Johann Sebastian Bach (1,685–1,750)
Key D major
Style Baroque
Roughly RCM 7 · ABRSM 6 · Trinity 6–7 · Henle 4
Focus two-part counterpoint, hand independence
What its lesson teaches
Study Bach’s Invention in D major, BWV 774. G sharps from bar 6 take it to A major, the dominant, and A sharps in bars 16–24 to B minor, the relative minor, before it comes home to D: find the cadence that confirms each key. At the keyboard: play a cadence in a related key.
Technique C major mordent, hands separately: main note, the note above, main note, evenly before quicker C major turn, hands separately: the note above, the main note, the note below, the main note D major scale, hands together, 2 octaves
The other lesson pieces of Level 7
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778 Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor), WoO 59 Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4 Autumn Circle Etude Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: I. Andante Invention No. 8 in F major, BWV 779 Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782 La huérfana, Op. 1 No. 9 Lullaby (Berceuse), Op. 109 No. 7
Previous piece Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4The repertoire of Level 7
Next piece Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo
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